Friedrich (Salm-Horstmar)

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Coat of arms of the Prince of Salm-Horstmar, 1850

Wilhelm Friedrich Karl August Rheingraf zu Salm-Grumbach , since 1816 Prince of Salm-Horstmar (born March 11, 1799 , † March 27, 1865 in Varlar ) was a German nobleman . Still a minor, he was the ruling lord of the briefly imperial county of Horstmar .

family

Friedrich zu Salm-Horstmar came from the Grumbach line of the Salm family, which belonged to the high nobility . The Wild and Rhine Counts Salm-Grumbach were masters of the Grafschaft Horstmar , which was independent for a few years between 1802 and 1806 and which became part of the Grand Duchy of Berg in 1806 through the Rhine Confederation Act . After an annexation by France, during which the area was incorporated into the Lippe department between 1811 and 1813 , and an interim administration by the Generalgouvernement between Weser and Rhine , it was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia by the Congress of Vienna in 1815 ; there the counts of Salm-Grumbach were raised to the hereditary Prussian nobility in 1816 and called themselves Salm-Horstmar from then on. Friedrich's parents were Karl Ludwig zu Salm-Grumbach (1729–1799) and Wilhelmine Friederike, geb. Sayn-Wittgenstein (1767-1849). He married Elisabeth Countess of Solms-Rödelheim (1806–1886). The couple had five children:

Life

At the age of just a few months, Friedrich became the heir to the Salm-Grumbach estates, which were on the left bank of the Rhine and became French in 1802. The Salm-Grumbach house was compensated with territories of the Principality of Münster around Coesfeld , which, as the County of Horstmar, were imperial sovereign territory until 1806. Friedrich, the head of this area, was still a minor; Guardian - and thus regent of the County of Horstmar - was his mother Wilhelmine Friederike. In 1816 Friedrich was raised to the hereditary prince status with the address Your Highness .

As a registrar, Friedrich zu Salm-Horstmar had a seat in the Westphalian provincial parliament , in 1847/48 in the First and Second United States Parliament and since 1854 a hereditary seat in the Prussian mansion , to which he belonged until his death in 1865.

Salm dealt with scientific subjects and in 1854 published the book Experiments and Results on the Nutrition of Plants . In 1856 he became an honorary member of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences and in 1857 an honorary member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .

In 1836 he was made an honorary citizen of Coesfeld .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gerhard Köbler (ed.): Historical Lexicon of the German Lands - The German Territories from the Middle Ages to the Present . Beck-Verlag, 2007, p. 604 f.
  2. ↑ The history of Varlar Castle . Website in the portal salm-horstmar.de ; Retrieved November 8, 2013.
  3. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Volume 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Series 3, volume 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 260.
  4. ^ List of honorary citizens on the city page
personal data
SURNAME Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wilhelm Friedrich Karl August Prince and Rheingraf zu Salm-Horstmar (full name); Wilhelm Friedrich Karl August Rheingraf zu Salm-Grumbach (birth name); Salm-Horstmar, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German nobleman
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1799
DATE OF DEATH March 27, 1865
Place of death Varlar Abbey